If you are a judge on THIS level of a finals in the best leage in the world, where things will happen and misstakes like this can NOT be made. dont care if BC got shot before he got too the snake, but he was def shot when he went over the snake by the the JOY back player.plus the JOY snake player blasted him too, soo is hard fore the judges too get BC and the snake player of the field?? IT was a traid(spelling).
Its the judges job too make BC neutral, if the judges isnt doing that. HE was still in play!
so this is a wrong made call from the judges, what they say is final even if its a bad one.
i have seen worse incendents with overshoting. where the player was having his hand on he´s head and stil gets blasted away= No overshoting cal from the ref in that case.

refs dont really call players neutral anymore in the us (i dont know if they still do that in europe or not)

i could not really tell from watching the game, but from my eyes it looked liked it should have been a tie (1on1)

but regardless, that game was amazing, probably one of the best paintball games i have ever seen (especially since it was for the tournament and the series)

Of course it was the right call,,, if u r a biased ref....
Yeah BC was clearly hit several times b4 he dives in... he kept on playin so ofcourse he recieved some more paint.... whats the big deal???
3 -1 its just a robbery... No way some1 gonna let Joy win twice....
1-1 or rematch if the refs couldnt make up whats really happened....
Anyways big up 4 Joy who once again showed whos the best... Makin the finals against 8 players every game...

When I first saw it I thought I had seen hits on BCs right .
After watching the video again you can see the back Joy guy running in as BC heads out of the cheese towards the snake and you can see paint exploding , the back guy gets him in the arm and it looks like it comes off his shoulder BEFORE he gets to the snake. When you watch the video the dead Joy guy in the snake cannot shoot at him UNTIL he is over the snake and on the ground. SO it is obvious he was hit by the back guy, slow the video down and you can see the Joy guy picking him up and running with him towards the snake.
Yes the Joy guy that is dead shoots BUT this is AFTER BC should have been eliminated at which point there would be no penalty to give.

post said pics... regardless thats a call dynasty otherwise would've gotten away with because no ref even whispered about it and a ref was looking right at fraige. it's only illegal if your caught right?

The biggest question is was BCs' armband pulled?

Maxs' interview was questionable. he said bc was shot in the wrist on the dive and then later says 7...6...5 jd players saw him get it on his left shoulder???????

I saw that video replay so many times. Yes, it was a tough call, but this is what I saw. The joy player took out Fraige then slid into snake 2. The ref has only called Fraige out at this point and turns to check the joy player. BC jumps over the snake and exchanges with the Joy player. Both are eliminated and have armbands pulled. The final Joy player who is still live comes around to clean-up and BC stands up points his marker at the player and the Joy player shoots him. Everybody here would have shot him too. BC should have been penalized not Joy. There was so much going on though that it was hard to make that call. Like I said I watched the replay multiple times. Maybe they can start offering instant replay to the refs like they do in football.
On a side note I want to correct the call that the ref did make. Even if Joy was given a 3 for 1 penalty that doesn't automatically give Dynasty the pull and hang. All players were still eliminated. Joy would just be given a score deduction.

The fact that the JOY player, laying on the ground was shooting AFTER his armband was pulled... is why there was a penalty...

Because Joy had NO MORE players to be pulled, the Pull and Hang are INSTANTLY given to Dynasty, regardless of who is alive or dead.

BC didn't even have to hang the flag, he could have stood there... he was smart in doing that just to justify that he hung it...

Either way, the refs were right... no BS... no stealing... just a stupid joy player... If he would have just laid there, and the other joy player bunker BC, it would have been clean, Joy would have won... but because he shot AFTER his band was pulled... that's why joy lost it...

I'm not a big professional paintball fanboy. I've been playing speedball for about a year now, after having seen the 05 tournament on ESPN2 and being reminded that paintball was a lot of fun back when I was in high school, so maybe it would be fun now that I'm out of college.

Since I don't have much invested in either team, or the outcome for that matter, here is my opinion after seeing the video and the pictures. I think it is obvious that Fraige is shot out and the Joy player is clean who bumps past Fraige. It happened so quickly however, as BC came running in, that it would be almost impossible to tell exactly where and when BC got hit. You watch the video, and its all so quick. The Joy player and BC clearly exchanged and it should be a 1 for 1.

However, upon watching the video, the last Joy player certainly had a good cause to shoot a few shots at both Fraige and BC. They were both standing there, and either of them could have been in. He doesn't just run up and shoot them each a few times however, he runs up, stops, turns his gun on the Dynasty player, shoots for a few seconds, then keeps running. That wasn't a "****, are you still in?" That was an angry person, pumped up on adrenaline, overloading on someone who wasn't really in a position to fight back.

I don't know enough about the rules for me to say whether or not BC is considered a neutral target, thereby skirting the idea of him being over shot. He was 100% executed, but far be it from me to determine intent.

It is just too hard to ref with 100% accuracy in a sport like this. The refs should have called a 1 on 1 to settle this as opposed to letting a penalty decide the outcome. However, the Joy player should be penalized or fined or dealt with. It is actions like that that are going to keep paintball on WEBTV as opposed to NBC. You want to make more money and have more tournaments? You keep paintball clean of BS like that, you eliminate as much cheating as you can, and you'll be playing for a lot more money. Then you can all afford as much BAWLS as you want.

I would like to see most people here try to make a "fair" call on that one. I think the refs did what they saw best. Personally, I would have gone with Matty Marshall and declared a 1v1. That way nobody could argue. But I give the refs credit by listening to both sides before thier decision.